Job Description

End Date

Monday 26 January 2026

Salary Range

83,411 - 98,130

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Summary

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Job Title:

Lead Technical Application Specialist

Salary:

90,440 - 106,000

Location:

Edinburgh

Hours:

Full time

Working Pattern:

Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too...

About this opportunity

Lloyds Banking Group is redefining itself to build the bank of the future. Our Commercial Banking division supports UK businesses and those connected to the UK, helping them grow, manage risk and improve efficiency. Within Commercial Banking, you'll help deliver the next generation digital bank for clients. By simplifying and automating journeys, clients receive a better experience, and colleagues are enabled to spend more time helping clients grow their businesses.


In this role, you'll act as a key engineering and leadership presence across a number of feature teams - uplifting capability, strengthening technical practices, and ensuring consistent, high quality outcomes across a complex application landscape.


This role is critical in ensuring that our systems are developed, integrated and maintained in line with excellent engineering standards. You'll coach and uplift leadership populations, contribute to end to end change initiatives, and help mature our engineering ecosystem -- including API uplift, skills development, vendor management, and cross team technical alignment.

What

you'll

do

Lead and mentor a

multi

skilled group of engineers

across multiple feature teams, ensuring consistent standards, capability uplift and strong technical outcomes. Recruit, coach and develop leaders within the engineering population,

raising capability and building a

high

performing

culture.

Represent the specialist function in high level meetings and

influence

decision

making

across a broad, multi team landscape. Own and contribute to

end

to

end

change initiatives

, ensuring alignment across multiple applications and feature teams. Drive uplift across the wider bank ecosystem - including API standards, engineering skills, backlog quality and platform maturity. Oversee vendor management, ensuring suppliers provide the right skills, leadership and delivery capability to meet bank objectives . Collaborate closely with feature teams and third parties to identify and implement creative solutions that align with business needs. Provide technical leadership to architects and developers, including hands on guidance and problem solving where required . Monitor and report on progress across multiple engineering teams, addressing risks and issues promptly to ensure reliable delivery. Develop and embed processes that improve engineering efficiency, service quality and observability. Support continuous improvement initiatives, fostering a culture of learning and shared outcomes. Oversee the maintenance and enhancement of service infrastructure, ensuring stability, performance and sustainability. Ensure all engineering activities comply with industry standards, regulatory requirements and internal governance.

What

you'll

need

Deep expertise across the software engineering lifecycle, ensuring high standards in design, development, testing and deployment. Demonstrable experience operating across

multiple feature teams

in a leadership or technical stewardship role. Strong capability in

operational optimisation

- including automation, observability, monitoring and systems health management. Experience in incident resolution and root cause analysis across complex, multi application environments. Proven technology leadership skills, able to define and maintain engineering standards while aligning solutions to architecture and business objectives . Experience delivering complex technical change across multi team and multi platform environments. Experience of DevOps pipeline optimisation and modern CI/CD practices. Familiarity with automated testing, process automation and quality engineering principles. Significant experience in Agile delivery environments.

About working for us...

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.


We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.


We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under represented groups.


We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a

wide

ranging

benefits package, which includes...

A generous pension contribution of up to 15% An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance Share schemes including free shares Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.

We'd

love to hear from you!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.